Parents reject Ellen Greenberg suicide ruling: ‘Ellen was murdered’

(NewsNation) — The parents of Ellen Greenberg on Thursday offered a full-throated rejection of the latest official ruling that Greenberg died by suicide in her Philadelphia apartment in 2011.

For years, Josh and Sandee Greenberg have said their 27-year-old schoolteacher daughter was murdered and have filed legal actions to reopen the case. This week, Philadelphia Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Lindsay Simon issued a report reaffirming the office’s previous finding of suicide after evaluating a wide range of information, including Ellen Greenberg’s history of anxiety and by watching a recent Hulu docuseries.

Simon also noted that Greenberg and the live-in fiancé who found her body, Sam Goldberg, were not in an abusive relationship.

Ellen Greenberg, center, with her father, Josh, and mother, Sandee. (Greenberg family)

Appearing on Thursday's “Elizabeth Vargas Reports,” Josh and Sandee Greenberg said the M.E. went beyond the scope of what she should she have done — mainly, a review the physical evidence. Ellen Greenberg had 23 stab wounds, including incisions to the back of her head.

“I think my daughter was murdered,” Josh Greenberg said.

“By whom?” Vargas asked.

“I don’t know. I’m not going there,” the father replied. “We have never gone there. We’ve only asked for two things: an unbiased investigation led by an unbiased investigator.”

He said the case isn’t closed: “This ruling, which is so fallacious and so bogus, opens the case up to more questioning. … It didn’t settle anything with us.”

Dr. Marlon Osbourne, the pathologist who conducted the original autopsy on Ellen Greenberg, initially classified the death as a homicide, but changed it to suicide. Osbourne earlier this year signed a statement saying the death should be classified as something other than suicide.